Individual Differences in Foreign-Language Phoneme Perception and Production

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vera Kempe ◽  
John C. Thoresen ◽  
Patricia J. Brooks
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Phoneme Perception

Learning Efficiency: Identifying Individual Differences in Learning Rate and Retention in Healthy Adults

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (9) ◽  
pp. 1436-1450 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher L. Zerr ◽  
Jeffrey J. Berg ◽  
Steven M. Nelson ◽  
Andrew K. Fishell ◽  
Neil K. Savalia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Learning And Memory ◽  
Standardized Tests ◽  
Healthy Adults ◽  
Learning Rate ◽  
Learning Abilities ◽  
Learning Efficiency ◽  
Paired Associates

People differ in how quickly they learn information and how long they remember it, yet individual differences in learning abilities within healthy adults have been relatively neglected. In two studies, we examined the relation between learning rate and subsequent retention using a new foreign-language paired-associates task (the learning-efficiency task), which was designed to eliminate ceiling effects that often accompany standardized tests of learning and memory in healthy adults. A key finding was that quicker learners were also more durable learners (i.e., exhibited better retention across a delay), despite studying the material for less time. Additionally, measures of learning and memory from this task were reliable in Study 1 ( N = 281) across 30 hr and Study 2 ( N = 92; follow-up n = 46) across 3 years. We conclude that people vary in how efficiently they learn, and we describe a reliable and valid method for assessing learning efficiency within healthy adults.

Children’s and adults’ initial phonological acquisition of a foreign language

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 374-401
Author(s):  
Romana Kopečková ◽  
Christine Dimroth ◽  
Ulrike Gut
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Adult Learners ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Discrimination Task ◽  
Phonological Acquisition ◽  
Phoneme Discrimination ◽  
Sentence Imitation ◽  
German Children ◽  
L2 Perception

Abstract This study compared children’s and adults’ L2 perception and production in the first hours of exposure to a foreign language. A total of 10 German children and 19 German adults performed a phoneme discrimination task and a sentence imitation task in Polish at two testing times. Exposed to a comparable input, the adult learners were found to perceive Polish sibilant contrasts more accurately than their child counterparts and to maintain this advantage over a two-week-long instruction. However, the two groups did not differ in their developing ability to produce the tested sibilants. A great deal of inter- and intra-individual differences in both learner groups was also attested. Our findings suggest that young L2 instructed learners are not necessarily better and/or faster perceivers and producers of novel language sounds than adult L2 instructed learners, who are able to discriminate a range of novel sibilant pairs even after very limited L2 exposure.

scholarly journals Musical competence and phoneme perception in a foreign language

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 1929-1934 ◽  
Author(s):  
Swathi Swaminathan ◽  
E. Glenn Schellenberg
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Phoneme Perception

scholarly journals Deaf and Hard-of-hearing Students' Individual Differences in Foreign Language Learning

2015 ◽  
Vol 115 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kata Csizér ◽  
Katalin Piniel ◽  
Edit Kontráné Hegybíró
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Hard Of Hearing ◽  
Foreign Language Learning
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